Question

I am trying to update some local access databases from a web database. When I am accessing the web page, I want the user to select a folder on the local hard drive where the DB’s reside that will be updated by the program. I actually have been using the File Upload control to do this as it has allowed me to check the file extensions on the local DB’s their file size and other misc. items.

This captures the full path with the file name…

fileName = FileUploadAccess.PostedFile.FileName.ToLower

Now I have a need to capture the full path of the db’s on the local hard drive. I can get the full path with the filename, but then I need to write a bunch of code to strip the filename from the path variable.

Is there a simple way to capture the path of the location the DB when the file location is selected, something like this….

Dim thePath As String = System.IO.Path.GetFullPath

Thanks for any suggestions.

Answer 1

You can use IO.Path.GetDirectoryName

Here is a sample code:

Dim MyDirectoryPath As String = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(MyFullPath)